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Youth is the time when hearts are large	A
And stirring wars	B
Appeal to the spirit which appeals in turn	C
To the blade it draws	D
If woman incite and duty show	E
Though made the mask of Cain	F
Or whether it be Truth's sacred cause	G
Who can aloof remain	F
That shares youth's ardor uncooled by the	H
snow	E
Of wisdom or sordid gain	F
	-
The liberal arts and nurture sweet	I
Which give his gentleness to man	J
Train him to honor lend him grace	K
Through bright examples meet	I
That culture which makes never wan	L
With underminings deep but holds	M
The surface still its fitting place	K
And so gives sunniness to the face	K
And bravery to the heart what troops	N
Of generous boys in happiness thus bred	O
Saturnians through life's Tempe led	O
Went from the North and came from the	H
South	P
With golden mottoes in the mouth	P
To lie down midway on a bloody bed	O
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Woe for the homes of the North	Q
And woe for the seats of the South	P
All who felt life's spring in prime	R
And were swept by the wind of their place and	S
time	R
All lavish hearts on whichever side	T
Of birth urbane or courage high	U
Armed them for the stirring wars	B
Armed them some to die	U
Apollo like in pride	T
Each would slay his Python caught	V
The maxims in his temple taught	W
Aflame with sympathies whose blaze	X
Perforce enwrapped him social laws	D
Friendship and kin and by gone days	X
Vows kisses every heart unmoors	X
And launches into the seas of wars	X
What could they else North or South	P
Each went forth with blessings given	Y
By priests and mothers in the name of Heaven	Y
And honor in both was chief	Z
Warred one for Right and one for Wrong	A2
So be it but they both were young	B2
Each grape to his cluster clung	B2
All their elegies are sung	B2
The anguish of maternal hearts	X
Must search for balm divine	C2
But well the striplings bore their fated parts	X
The heavens all parts assign	C2
Never felt life's care or cloy	D2
Each bloomed and died an unabated Boy	D2
Nor dreamed what death was thought it mere	E2
Sliding into some vernal sphere	E2
They knew the joy but leaped the grief	Z
Like plants that flower ere comes the leaf	Z
Which storms lay low in kindly doom	F2
And kill them in their flush of bloom	F2

Herman Melville

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